Hidden within Sydney’s lush Royal Botanic Garden is a walled cactus rockery and the site of Australia's first zoo.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

A colorful sculpture of an Australian symbol patrols an otherwise ordinary traffic island.

These flying foxes dangle from the trees around the library like fuzzy black fruit.

This public art is inspired by a local Aboriginal creation story.

One of Vietnam's most iconic landmarks was built by Japanese traders and is now in danger of sinking.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.

The wing of this deserted Boeing 737 almost touches the Dunkin' Donuts next door.

A real-life "hobbit" cave in Flores, Indonesia.

The unique design was created by the traditional way communal rice paddies were divided among the indigenous people.

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.

Once home to Komodo dragons, this island dreamscape has a rare combination of white, pink, and black sand beaches.

The name of this ancient Indonesian temple translates as "Elephant Cave" but it could be more accurately called "The Hellmouth."

Visitors to this museum will find architectural oddities, an art gallery, and an unlikely bird sanctuary.

The unique funeral practices of the Toraja can be seen here with graves carved into caves and hung off cliffs.

Where cemeteries are carved into the side of cliffs and infants are buried in the hollows of trees.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

This massive complex is made up of hundreds of smaller temples that date back to the ninth century.

An Indonesian mosque styled after St. Basil's Cathedral.

Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.

Steampunk, humanoid sculptures crawl on all fours in a Tokyo plaza.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.